Fanbase is going to be pretty happy about the game I think -- it's largely the first game, except modernized/better.
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Dying Light 2 - Steam player peak at launch was 164,591 concurrent players. 3.5x the all time player peak of Dying Light 1
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It was one of the most wishlisted steam games, and the Steam audience has grown massively since the original release. Not really unexpected. I'm more curious how many people like the game. I recall DL1 had similar press reactions, but people loved playing both single player and coop. Hopefully the same with 2
It has some of the most impressive graphics I've ever seen. The ray tracing is insane. I'm really happy they pushed it hard instead of weakening the effects for current pcs. DLSS makes the game playable now, but playing this on future video cards that will be able to run the game natively in 4k at a high framerate is going to be incredible.
They don't realize that PC players operate differently. Reviews matter, but not nearly as much to PC players.
The negative Steam reviews aren't even because the people dislike the game. It seems to be mostly due to performance and crashing issues
This is a PC game first and foremost, so it's not surprising it's doing extremely well.
The PC version was built from the ground up instead of a barebones console -> pc port.
I'm surprised by my performance so far. With all Ray tracing turned on and DLSS quality I'm getting over 80 FPS. but I just started haven't even hit the city yet, so we'll see, but super happy with my 3060ti right now.
Wowzers. That's unexpected but kudos to the devs at Techland. By reports it was a rocky development. I hope the devs see major payments for their hard work that allowed the game to flourish like this.
231K now..
9K Left till it reaches MonHun World's Day 1 CCU PEAK Range.
As far as paid games are concerned; Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 4, GTA V, Valheim, PUBG (when it was paid), MHW and New World had a higher CCU.
the rest were F2P games or free week-ends.
PUBG hit its high when it was a paid game, and CSGO was higher before it went F2P as well. There's also Bannerlord and Terraria and I think Rust?
lol there's like a five year road map and they literally spent the last 7 years putting out shit for DL1
This game sells well because it's a parkour game. It's got a zombie theme but it's nothing like any other zombie game. I think the people that wrote it off did so because they think "it's just another boring zombie game". It's not though, it's a niche audience who has been starved since Dying Light and Mirror's Edge Catalyst so many years ago.
The first game sold, what, 17+ million copies? Dying Light ain't niche.
Partly this is why iam excited to see DL2 chart so high.
Edit: Seems like DL2 is finally going down after reaching 245K CCU.
Won't be shocked if its reaches Monster Hunter WORLD's CCU peak(334K) tomorrow.
Nah. Mirror's Edge is basically the founder of the genre and has bombed both times. Some AA (like Ghostrunner) and indie games have done well enough, but the parkour is more of a bonus than a core reason why this series does so well compared to other parkour games.
It's still a co-op zombie fps with rpg elements. Basically catnip on PC, at least.
Dying Light is niche?
You think DL2 is doing well because of the Mirror's Edge fanbase? What?
What???
Dead Island, the predecessor of Dying Light also did incredibly well too despite being a much jankier, buggier, generally worse game. Techland just struck gold with the zombie rpg formula. The parkour is icing on the cake.
LOL, yeah, if Mirror's Edge sold like Dying Light then it would be one of EA's top franchises.
Niche doesn't mean what you think it does and I was basically trying to say that they have this corner of the market to themselves because they are just about the only parkour game going around. Niche doesn't mean unsuccessful or unpopular.
Niche:
- a comfortable or suitable position in life or employment.
"he is now a partner at a leading law firm and feels he has found his niche"
- a specialized segment of the market for a particular kind of product or service.
"he believes he has found a niche in the market"